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enThe 19th-century origins of the China-Japan schismhttp://liberalopinion.com/content/19th-century-origins-china-japan-schism
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&nbsp; &nbsp; On March 16, 1885, an editorial entitled &quot;Leaving Asia&quot; was published in the Japanese newspaper Jiji Shimpo. Now widely believed to have been written by Yukichi Fukuzawa, the intellectual giant of the 19th-century modernization movement that culminated in the Meiji Restoration, it argued that Japan could simply not afford to be held back by &quot;feudalistic&quot; China and Korea, and should therefore &quot;leave the ranks of Asian nations and cast our lot with the civilized nations of the West.&quot;</p>
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</div>David PillingInternationalThu, 20 Mar 2014 19:45:27 +0000admin2857 at http://liberalopinion.com